Moss Plants and More

Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at sc...

Hanging out with botanists in the field is a great way to learn more about plants and their identification. I recently spent a few days wit...

A friend of a friend sent me these lovely photos of mosses from Bath, England to identify.  So, where do we start? Well, I usually star...

Rhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris Photographer Blanka Shaw If you are familiar with mosses from the eastern United States you may...

Do you know this moss? After our run-in at the herbarium last week we are besties. Stay tuned for a post later in the week about my mossy a...

Moss spores are small single celled packages that play a crucial role in establishing new populations. These tiny units are blown by the wi...

The name of this moss describes  some of the  features that make this species easy to recognize. It is the moss  Acrocladium auriculatum. I...

It always amuses me when I bump into bryophytes when reading, especially when it is my recreational fiction reading. It is pretty common fo...

Another moss from my trip to southern Chile this past January. Unfortunately I don't have an id for this one. If anyone has any though...

Some Grimmiaceae mosses hanging out with an intensely yellow lichen pal  from the 2015 SO BE FREE  moss foray in the San Bernardino Mounta...

This past January I attended the 2015 conference of the International Bryological Association in southern Chile . It was a great conference...

A crispy patch of Gemmabryum mosses from the 2015 SO BE FREE  moss foray in the San Bernardino mountains. 1 - Single click on the i...